Twenty five years ago, the IAEA initiated a research programme on the development of in vitro mutagenesis in banana at the Plant Breeding Laboratory and since then has developed considerable and ...

The laboratory is starkly bright ... Sorrells, chairman of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell University. The technique, called genomic selection, is about five years old and is used ...

recently completed a $2.5 million laboratory modernization to accelerate pecan breeding through innovations in genetics and plant disease research. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on March 26 ...

This produces true-breeding lines instantly ... Ravi and Chan were studying a protein called CENH3 in the laboratory plant Arabidopsis thaliana. CENH3 belongs to a group of proteins called ...

Our plant science program involves course work in plant molecular biology, plant breeding, plant pathology, plant tissue culture, horticulture, crop science, plant anatomy and/or plant physiology.

So, to complement plant breeding, scientists have developed new ... And the idea of tweaking our food’s DNA in a lab can make some people feel uneasy. Like, if we eat GMOs, will we suddenly ...

plant breeding, plant pathology, plant tissue culture, landscape design, horticulture, crop science, plant anatomy and plant physiology; and Soil science, which includes soil chemistry, soil fertility ...

Plant breeding has long faced a critical bottleneck: efficiently delivering gene-editing tools to the right cells. Traditional methods require complex lab techniques where plant tissue is ...

Plant architecture, the three-dimensional structural feature formed during morphogenesis, has a profound effect on crop yield and thus serves as a core element in high-yield breeding. However ...

In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we explore how we’ve learned to manipulate plant genetics, from breeding tastier fruits and veggies to directly editing plant genes that help crops ...